WHAT IS AMERICA'S TIMELINE?

America's Timeline is a news almanac. It is not itself a news site but rather a curated collection of news articles from other websites, sorted by topic. Here at
America's Timeline, we've been increasing the nation's attention span since 2018.

How you use the information at America's Timeline is ultimately up to you, but we offer a few suggestions:

SEE THE WORLD FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE

America's Timeline is non-partisan. You will see news stories from all different areas of the political spectrum, allowing you to compare and contrast the viewpoints of different Americans.

JUL 10, 2018

POSITION: POPULIST LEFT

SOURCE: VOX

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

As a circuit court judge, Kavanaugh was bound in almost every case to obey Supreme Court precedent faithfully. The Supreme Court, by contrast, can overturn its own precedents. It’s usually hesitant to do so, but just this term it threw out three decades-old rulings.

JUL 10, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. LEFT

SOURCE: ROLLING ST

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

President Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, already has signaled that he will be sympathetic to the president’s legal position in the looming court showdown over the Russia investigation.

JUL 10, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. RIGHT

SOURCE: FOX NEWS

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

Judge Kavanaugh certainly does offer clarity on this often politically obscured issue. In concise, logical prose Judge Kavanaugh wrote a dissent to a case that followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller v. D.C. decision, which found the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms.

JUL 10, 2018

POSITION: POPULIST RIGHT

SOURCE: LIFE SITE

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

Kavanaugh ruled that there was no right for unlawful immigrant minors in detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand, although he based his decision on the theory that the delay didn’t constitute an “undue burden,” whereas Judge Henderson recognized the illegal immigrant had no right to abortion at all.

JUL 11, 2018

POSITION: OTHER

SOURCE: REASON

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

Justice Anthony Kennedy was the most speech-protective justice on the most speech-protective Supreme Court in our nation's history. The Kavanaugh nomination provides reason to hope that this free speech legacy is secure.

SEE HOW AN ISSUE DEVELOPS OVER TIME

It's easy to remember what happened in the news today, but what happened last week? America's Timeline allows you to compare today's news with last week's expectations, so you can watch history unfold right before your eyes.

SEP 5, 2017

POSITION: POPULIST RIGHT

SOURCE: BREITBART

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

DACA will be rescinded by a memorandum from Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke, effective immediately. No current beneficiaries will lose their protected status for six months, but no new applications for DACA status will be taken after Tuesday.

JAN 10, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. LEFT

SOURCE: NPR

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco granted a request by California and other states to keep DACA going, at least until lawsuits can play out in court. Trump has said that any deal to extend DACA must include plans for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.

JAN 23, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. LEFT

SOURCE: USA TODAY

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

The Senate's Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, is taking back his offer to President Trump to fund his big beautiful wall. "The wall offer is off the table," he told reporters on Tuesday. "That was part of a package" that's now defunct.

APR 24, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. LEFT

SOURCE: NY TIMES

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

Judge John D. Bates of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia said that the administration’s decision to terminate the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was based on the “virtually unexplained” grounds that the program was “unlawful.”

AUG 18, 2018

POSITION: ESTAB. RIGHT

SOURCE: WASH TIMES

SUBMITTER: MICHAEL L.

The federal judge who had ordered the government to restart the Obama-era deportation amnesty in full has backed off his decision and said the government does not, after all, have to begin accepting new applications.

SEE WHEN PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED THEIR MINDS

Politicans (and sometimes parties) are famous for changing their minds and flip-flopping on important issues. America's Timeline stores a record of their views and promises, so you can hold them accountable.